What’s a good cover for “Fastest man alive”, well, that’s pretty easy: Slowest job alive. If it doesn’t make sense to anyone else, it at least makes sense to someone like The Scarlet Speedster, who has his bag slung over his shoulder and winter coat keeping him as warm as the falls in Japan get. His thumb is sliding over songs on his iPod, attention at a very miniscule percentage. The Teenager getting “Break my stride” playing through the earphones before he slides the music device into his jacket.
Only then do the surroundings register. Head snaps toward the loud crash that finally erupts over his earphones. The teenager turning toward an incoming car that’s soaring through the air, seeming to have wildly found himself and a few other civilians as what they choose to impact into. Adrenaline spikes, senses kick in, EYES COURSE WITH YELLOW LIGHTNING.
Time grinds to a slow and halted flow. The Speedster stands amongst people that move tens of thousands of times slower than him. The people in the comic books usually call this power, “Bullet Time.” He can only hear his own panting. The music in his headphones nothing more than a slow constant humming sound as he hears the air vibrating around him. He swallows a lump in his throat, he’s gotta survey the situation before moving into action. After-all, he’s out of costume… Eyes flick toward the building he’s standing in front of. His heart drops like a rock.
A camera, right outside the front door, and he’s standing directly in it’s line of sight.
He grits his teeth, clenches his fist. The car’s getting closer and closer to him. He has two options, and minutes to think on it. The other people around him are experiencing time at a faster rate… and their lives are flashing before his eyes. His options are presented as such:
- The camera has you pegged. If you move now, you’re done for. Bye-Bye secret identity. Whoever decides to observe that footage will see someone with powers strikingly similar to that blur the news’ been talking about. You heal quickly, but the question of healing can only come after the question of whether or not he’ll SURVIVE taking that car head on, and even then, his concerns more rely with the citizens around him.
- Option two: Ignore the camera, accept that you’ve been caught, and accept the consequences, or try to play the fool when you’re confronted about it. Move the civilians, get out of the way, save those innocent lives. When a pro rolls up, they might get suspicious but they won’t know for sure unless they see that camera footage. When you’re caught though, you can endure the prison time… Ochaco won’t. Her career as a hero will forever be stained by her vigilante brother.
Dammit… The Speedster can’t run his way out of this one… He closes his eyes and accepts whatever’s coming his way…
Hot on the heels of the car and its reign of terror was the moon rabbit herself, following a villain that’d stolen a vehicle- seemed the poor guy’s quirk didn’t give him any movement options, ‘specially against a speed powerhouse like Mirko- and quickly found herself hopping between cars in oncoming traffic, before the vehicle ramped off the back of another car that’d stopped for the crosswalk, and the civilians that were currently making use of it.
Unfortunately, Mirko wasn’t gifted with bullet time. She had to make her decisions on the spot, and that usually ended up with a rather rough outcome- but she always put civilians first.
“ Dammit- watch where you’re GOING, DUMBASS ! “
A leg lifts up over her head as she flips off the wall of a nearby building- and the heel of her foot plunged directly into the hood of the vehicle, striking it down directly into the pavement, just a few feet away from the civilians. The front of the car crunched and folded over like a can of sardines, and the villain driving it is ejected through the windshield like a crash test dummy. He flies forehead first into the pavement- knocked unconscious on impact.
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